A dubious success: The NGO campaign against GMOs

The Nobel Laureates’ Campaign Supporting GMOs

More than 800 million people suffer from hunger in the world. Using modern plant breeding methods to generate so-called GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), agricultural scientists have shown that crop yields and nutritional quality can be greatly improved. Many GMO varieties have been specifically developed with the aim of being resistant to pests, tolerant to drought and containing benefici...

A Campaign against Consumption

Dr. A. Ransome is the author of several wellknown books on the Causes and Prevention of Phthisis and on the open-air treatment. The present volume is a collection of papers written at various periods during a fifty years' campaign against consumption. Many of the articles deal with the subject from a public health point of view, and others are on more scientific aspects of the problem. The subj...

Ngo and Grassroots Policy Influence: What Is Success?

Evaluation of Antibodies against Rubella Virus in a Mass Campaign Vaccination in Tehran, Iran

Background and Aims: Vaccine is available, but fetal infection with rubella virus is still a main cause of congenital birth defects and mental retardation in many countries. Mass vaccination campaigns and Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) have increased vaccine coverage in the world with a substantial impact on the reduction of rubella infections, such as Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)....

The campaign against leprosy in Venezuela.

Campaigns which have long been carried on against infecti ous or contagious diseases have evolved systematically a s new knowledge has been acquired of their pathogenicity , epidemiology, immunology, etc. The use of modern antibacterial drugs again st the sources of infection, the destruction of vectors, and the immunization of susceptible per sons . are effective methods which have r eplaced f...